Peter Reichert

Head of:
Department of Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modeling (SIAM)
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
PO Box 611
CH - 8600 Dübendorf
Switzerland

Adjunct professor at:
Department of Environmental Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
CH - 8092 Zürich
Switzerland

Education

1981: M.Sc. in theoretical physics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

1985: Ph.D. in theoretical solid state physics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

1995: Habilitation in environmental systems analysis at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland.

Research Fields

• Development of techniques for model-based statistical inference of environmental systems that account for the need of using prior information, input and model structure uncertainty, intrinsic stochasticity, and careful check of the fulfilment of statistical assumptions.
• Development and application of biogeochemical and ecological models of rivers and lakes.
• Design of models and decision analytical procedures for use of scientific knowledge and societal valuation in environmental decision support.
  
• Design and implementation of software that supports environmental scientists in model-based data analysis ( AQUASIM, UNCSIM ).

Teaching

Courses at ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Sciences:

• Modelling of Aquatic Ecosystems, course 701-0426-00
  

• Summer School in Environmental Systems Analysis
  

Courses at Eawag:

• Introduction to R

Publications

Submitted or in press:

Reichert, P. and Schuwirth, N., A generic framework for deriving process stoichiometry in environmental models, submitted.
    Scripts: stoichcalc.R, stoichcalc_example1.R, stoichcalc_example2.R, stoichcalc_appendix.R, stoichcalc_1.1-0.tar.gz

Reichert, P., White, G., Bayarri, M.J. and Pitman, E.B., Mechanism-based emulation of dynamic simulation models: Concept and application in hydrology, submitted.

Rieckermann, J., Sydler, D., Borsuk, M.E., Gujer, W. and Reichert, P., Bayesian experimental design of tracer studies to monitor leakage from sewer networks, submitted.

Schuwirth, N., Acuña, V., Reichert, P., Analyzing benthic community dynamics of an intermittent Mediterranean stream with a mechanistic model (ERIMO), submitted.

Schweizer, S., Borsuk, M.E., Uehlinger, U., Bouletrêau, S. and Reichert, P., Predicting the biomass of periphyton and macroinvertebrate functional feeding groups in stream reaches, submitted.

Published:

Siber, R., Stamm, C. and Reichert, P., Modeling potential herbicide loss to surface waters on the Swiss Plateau, Journal of Environmental Management 91, 290-302, 2009.

Ingendahl, D., Borchardt, D., Saenger, N. and Reichert, P., Vertical hydraulic exchange and the contribution of hyporheic community respiration to whole ecosystem respiration in the River Lahn, (Germany), Aquatic Sciences 71, 399-410, DOI 10.1007/s00027-009-0116-0, 2009.

Reichert, P., Uehlinger, U. and Acuña V., Estimating stream metabolism from oxygen concentrations: The effect of spatial heterogeneity, Journal of Geophysical Research 114, G03016, doi:10.1029/2008JG000917, 2009.
    Data: calc_np_luteren_o2.dat, calc_np_luteren_par.dat
    Scripts: calc_np_luteren.r, calc_np.r, smooth.r

Reichert, P., and Mieleitner, J., Analyzing input and structural uncertainty of nonlinear dynamic models with stochastic, time-dependent parameters, Water Resources Research, 45, W10402, doi:10.1029/2009WR007814, 2009.

Tomassini, L., Reichert, P., Künsch, H.-R. Buser, C., Knutti, R. and Borsuk, M.E., A smoothing algorithm for estmating stochastic, continuous-time model parameters and its application to a simple climate model, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) 58, 679-704, 2009.

Dittrich, M., Wehrli, B. and Reichert, P., Lake sediments during the transient eutrophication period: reactive-transport model and identifiability study, Ecological Modelling 220(20), 2751-2769, 2009.

Frey, M., Schneider, M.K., Dietzel, A., Reichert, P. and Stamm, C., Predicting contributing areas for diffuse herbicide losses to surface waters: role of connectivity and boundary conditions, Journal of Hydrology, 365, 23-36, 2009.

Reichert, P. and Mieleitner, J. Lake Models. In: Sven Erik Jørgensen and Brian D. Fath (Editor-in-Chief), Ecological Models. Vol. [3] of Encyclopedia of Ecology, 5 vols. pp. [2068-2080] Oxford: Elsevier, 2008.

Yang, J., Reichert, P., Abbaspour, K.C., Xia, J. and Yang, H., Comparing uncertainty analysis techniques for a SWAT application to the Chaohe Basin in China, Journal of Hydrology 258, 1-23, 2008.

Schuwirth, N., Kühni, M., Schweizer, S., Uehlinger, U. and Reichert, P., A mechanistic model of benthos community dynamics in the River Sihl, Switzerland, Freshwater Biology, 53, 1372-1392, 2008.

Mieleitner, J., Borsuk, M.E., Bürgi, H.-R. and Reichert, P., Identifying functional groups of phytoplankton using data of three lakes of different trophic state, Aquatic Sciences 70(1), 30-46, DOI 10.1007/s00027-007-0940-z, 2008.

Mieleitner, J. and Reichert, P., Modelling functional groups of phytoplankton in three lakes of different trophic state, Ecological Modelling 211, 279-291, 2008.

Yang, J., Reichert, P. and Abbaspour, K.C., Bayesian uncertainty analysis in distributed hydrologic modelling: A case study in the Thur river basin, Switzerland, Water Resources Research, 43, W10401, doi:10.1029/2006WR005497, 2007.

Tomassini, L., Reichert, P., Knutti, R., Stocker, T.F. and Borsuk, M.E., Robust Bayesian Uncertainty Analysis of Climate System Properties Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, Journal of Climate 20, 1239-1254, 2007.

Yang, J., Reichert, P., Abbaspour, K.C. and Yang, H., Hydrological Modelling of the Chaohe Basin in China: Statistical Model Formulatioon and Bayesian Inference, Journal of Hydrology 340, 167-182, 2007.

Schweizer, S., Borsuk, M. and Reichert, P., Predicting the morphological and hydraulic consequences of river rehabilitation, River Research and Applications 23(3), 303-322, 2007.

Schweizer, S., Borsuk, M., Jowett, I. and Reichert, P., Predicting joint frequency distributions of depth and velocity for instream habitat assessment, River Research and Applications 23(3), 287-303, 2007.

Spörri, C., Borsuk, M., Peters, I. and Reichert, P., The economic impacts of river rehabilitation: a regional input-output analysis, Ecological Economics 62, 341-351, 2007.

Reichert, P., Borsuk, M.E., Hostmann, M., Schweizer, S., Spörri, C., Tockner, K. and Truffer, B., Concepts of decision support for river rehabilitation, Environmental Modelling and Software, 22, 188-201, 2007.

Zobrist, J. and Reichert, P., «Bayesian estimation of export coefficients from diffuse and point sources in Swiss watersheds», Journal of Hydrology, 329, 207-223, 2006.

Reichert, P., A standard interface between simulation programs and systems analysis software, Water Science and Technology 53(1), 267-275, 2006.

Mieleitner, J. and Reichert, P., Analysis of the transferability of a biogeochemical lake model to lakes of different trophic state, Ecological Modelling 194, 49-61, 2006.

Borsuk, M.E., Reichert, P., Peter, A., Schager, E. and Burkhardt-Holm, P., Assessing the decline of brown trout (Salmo trutta) in Swiss rivers using a Bayesian probability network, Ecological Modelling 192, 224-244, 2006.

Hostmann, M., Bernauer, T., Mosler, H.-J., Reichert, P. and Truffer, B., Multi-attribute value theory as a framework for conflict resolution in river rehabilitation, Journal of Multi Criteria Decision Analysis 13, 91-102, 2005.

Rieckermann, J., Borsuk, M.E., Reichert, P. and Gujer, W., A novel tracer method for estimating sewer exfiltration, Water Resources Research, 41(5), Art. No. W05013, 2005.

Hostmann, M., Borsuk, M.E., Reichert, P. and Truffer, B., Stakeholder values in decision support for river rehabilitation, Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Supplement Volume 155(1-4), 491-505, 2005.

Reichert, P. and Borsuk, M.E., Does high forecast uncertainty preclude effective decision support?, Environmental Modelling and Software 20(8), 991-1001, 2005.

Meier, W.K. and Reichert, P., Mountain streams - modelling hydraulics and substance transport, Journal of Environmental Engineering 131(2), 252-261, 2005.

Reichert, P. and Wehrli, B., Modelling organic phosphorus transformation in aquatic systems, chapter 16 (pp 349 - 376) of Turner, B.L., Frossard, E. and Baldwin, D.S., eds. Organic Phosphorus in the Environment, CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK, 2005.

Meier, W.K., Bonjour, C., Wüest, A. and Reichert, P., Modelling the effect of water diversion on the temperature of mountain streams, Journal of Environmental Engineering 129(8), 755-764, 2003.

Lehmann, M.F., Reichert, P., Bernasconi, S.M., Barbieri, A. and McKenzie, J.A., Modelling nitrogen and oxygen isotope fractionation during nitrate reduction in a hypolimnetic redox-transition zone, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67(14), 2529-2542, 2003.

Yang, H., Reichert, P., Abbaspour, K.A. and Zehnder, A.J.B., A water resources threshold and its implications for food security, Environmental Science and Technology 37(14), 3048-3054, 2003.

Reichert, P., Schervish, M. and Small, M.J., An efficient sampling technique for Bayesian inference with computationally demanding models, Technometrics 44(4), 318-327, 2002.

Brun, R., Kühni, M., Siegrist, H.R., Gujer, W. and Reichert, P., Practical identifiability of ASM2d parameters - systematic selection and tuning of parameter subsets, Water Research 36(16), 4113-4127, 2002.

Omlin, M., Reichert, P. and Forster, R., Biogeochemical model of Lake Zürich: Model Equations and Results, Ecological Modelling 141(1-3), 77-103, 2001.

Omlin, M., Brun, R. and Reichert, P., Biogeochemical model of Lake Zürich: Sensitivity, Identifiability and Uncertainty Analysis, Ecological Modelling 141(1-3), 105-123, 2001.

Reichert, P. and Vanrolleghem, P., Identifiability and uncertainty analysis of the River Water Quality Model No. 1, Water Science and Technology, 43(7): 329-338, 2001.

Brun, R., Reichert, P. and Künsch, H.R., Practical Identifiability Analysis of Large Environmental Simulation Models, Water Resources Research 37(4): 1015-1030, 2001.

Shanahan, P., Borchardt, D., Henze, M., Rauch, W., Reichert, P., Somlyódy, L. and Vanrolleghem, P., River Water Quality Model No. 1: I. Modelling Approach, Water Science and Technology 43(5): 1-9, 2001.

Reichert, P., Borchardt, D., Henze, M., Rauch, W., Shanahan, P., Somlyódy, L. and Vanrolleghem, P., River Water Quality Model No. 1: II. Biochemical Process Equations, Water Science and Technology 43(5): 11-30, 2001.

    Spreadsheets: WST-stoichiometry.xls, STR-stoichiometry.xls

    AQUASIM file for constant benthic biomass: rwqm1-constx.aqu

Vanrolleghem, P., Borchardt, D., Henze, M., Rauch, W., Reichert, P., Shanahan, P. and Somlyódy, L., River Water Quality Model No. 1: III. Biochemical Submodel Selection, Water Science and Technology 43(5): 31-40, 2001.

Borchardt, D., and Reichert, P., River Water Quality Model No. 1: Case Study I. Compartmentalisation Approach Applied to Oxygen Balances in the River Lahn (Germany), Water Science and Technology 43(5): 41-49, 2001.

Reichert, P., River Water Quality Model No. 1: Case Study II. Oxygen and Nitrogen Conversion Processes in the River Glatt, Water Science and Technology 43(5): 51-60, 2001.

Uehlinger, U., König, C. and Reichert, P., Variability of Photosynthesis-Irradiance Curves and Ecosystem Respiration in a Small River, Freshwater Biology 44: 493-507, 2000.

Omlin, M. and Reichert, P., A Comparison of Techniques for the Estimation of Model Prediction Uncertainty, Ecological Modelling 115: 45-59, 1999.

Rauch, W., Henze, M., Koncsos, L., Reichert, P., Shanahan, P., Somlyody, L. and Vanrolleghem, P., River Water Quality Modeling: I. State of the Art, Water Science and Technology 38(11): 237-244, 1998.

Shanahan, P., Henze, M., Koncsos, L., Rauch, W., Reichert, P., Somlyody, L. and Vanrolleghem, P., River Water Quality Modeling: II. Problems of the Art, Water Science and Technology 38(11): 245-252, 1998.

Somlyody, L., Henze, M., Koncsos, L., Rauch, W., Reichert, P., Shanahan, P. and Vanrolleghem, P., River Water Quality Modeling: III. Future of the Art, Water Science and Technology 38(11): 253-260, 1998.

Fesch, C., Simon, W., Haderlein, St.B., Reichert, P. and Schwarzenbach, R.P., Nonlinear Sorption and Nonequilibrium Solute Transport in Aggregated Porous Media: Experiments, Process Identification and Modeling, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 31(3-4): 373-407, 1998.

Carstensen, J., Vanrolleghem, P., Rauch, W. and Reichert, P., Terminology and Methodology in Modelling for Water Quality Management - A Discussion Starter, Water Science and Technology 36(5): 157-168, 1997.

Reichert, P., On the Necessity of Using Imprecise Probabilities for Modelling Environmental Systems, Water Science and Technology 36(5): 149-156, 1997.

Simon, W., Reichert, P. and Hinz, C., Properties of Exact and Approximate Travelling Wave Solutions for Transport with Nonlinear and Nonequilibrium Sorption, Water Resources Research 33(5): 1139-1147, 1997.

Reichert, P. and Wanner, O., Movement of Solids in Biofilms: Significance of Liquid Phase Transport, Water Science and Technology 36(1): 321-328, 1997.

Reichert, P. and Omlin, M., On the Usefulness of Overparameterized Ecological Models, Ecological Modelling 95: 289-299, 1997.

Uehlinger U., Bührer H. and Reichert P., Periphyton Dynamics in a Floodprone Prealpine River: Evaluation of Significant Processes by Modelling, Freshwater Biology 36: 249-263, 1996.

Wanner O. and Reichert P., Mathematical Modeling of Mixed-Culture Biofilms, Biotechnology & Bioengineering 49: 172-184, 1996.

Reichert P., Design Techniques of a Computer Program for the Identification of Processes and the Simulation of Water Quality in Aquatic Systems, Environmental Software 10(3): 199-210, 1995.

Albrecht, A., Reichert P., Beer, J. and Lück, A. Evaluation of the Importance of Reservoir Sediments as Sinks for Reactor-Derived Radionuclides in Riverine Systems, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 28(3): 239-269, 1995.

Reichert P., von Schulthess R. and Wild D., The Use of AQUASIM for Estimating Parameters of Activated Sludge Models, Water Science and Technology 31(2): 135-147, 1995.

Reichert P., AQUASIM - A Tool for Simulation and Data Analysis of Aquatic Systems, Water Science and Technology 30(2): 21-30, 1994.

Wanner, O., Debus, O. and Reichert, P., Modelling the Spatial Distribution and Dynamics of a Xylene-Degrading Microbial Population in a Membrane-Bound Biofilm, Water Science and Technology 29(10-11): 243-251, 1994.

Cirpka O., Reichert P., Wanner O., Müller S.R. and Schwarzenbach R.P., Gas Exchange at River Cascades: Field Experiments and Model Calculations, Environmental Science and Technology 27(10): 2086-2097, 1993.

Heitzer, A., Kohler, H.P., Reichert, P. and Hamer, G., Utility of Phenomenological Models for Describing Temperature Dependence of Bacterial Growth, Applied and Environmental Microbiology 57(9): 2656-2665, 1991.

Reichert, P. and Wanner, O., Enhanced One-Dimensional Modeling of Transport in Rivers, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 117(9): 1165-1183, 1991.

Ruchti, J., Wanner, O. and Reichert, P., BIOSIM: Simulation of the Dynamics of Mixed Culture Biofilms, Environmental Software 6: 29-33, 1991.

Wanner, O., Egli, T., Fleischmann, T., Lanz, K., Reichert, P. and Schwarzenbach, R.P., Behavior of the Insecticides Disulfoton and Thiometon in the Rhine River: A Chemodynamic Study, Environmental Science and Technology 23(10): 1232-1242, 1989.

Capel, P.D., Giger, W., Reichert, P. and Wanner, O., Accidental Input of Pesticides into the Rhine River, Environmental Science and Technology 22(9): 992-997, 1988.

Schilling, R. and Reichert, P., Do Spatially Chaotic Configurations Possess Glass-Like Properties?, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 75: 129-134, 1985.

Reichert, P. and Schilling, R., Glasslike Properties of a Chain of Particles with Anharmonic and Competing Interactions, Physical Review B 32(9): 5731-5746, 1985.

Reichert, P. and Schilling, R., A Local Limit Theorem for Strongly Dependent Random Variables and its Application to a Chaotic Configuration of Atoms, Journal of Mathematical Physics 26(6): 1165-1172, 1985.

Reichert, P. and Schilling, R., Possibility of Interpreting Amorphicity as Spatial Chaos, Physical Review B 30(2): 917-922, 1984.

Links

Topics:

Imprecise Probabilities.

Nomenclature:

Glossary of statistical terms.

Institutes:

Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES), Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.

Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control (BIOMATH), University of Ghent, Gent, Belgium.

Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) and Center for the Integrated Study of the Human Dimension of Global Change (CIS-HDGC), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC, USA.

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.

International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Statistics Seminar, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland.

Water Resources Research Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

International Organisations:

United Nations (UNESCO, UNEP, FAO).

World Bank.

Professional Associations:

International Ecological Engineering Society.

International Society for Ecological Economics.

International Society for Ecological Modelling (ISEM).

International Water Association, London, England.

Journals:

Environmental Science and Technology.

Water Resources Research.

Water Science and Technology.

Ecological Modelling.

Environmental Modelling and Software.

Integrated Assessment.

Data Bases:

UNEP Global Environment Monitoring System for Freshwater Quality (GEMS/Water).

USGS Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center (EDC).

NOAA Satellite Active Archive.

National Climatic Data Center.

IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library.

Software:

Typesetting system LaTeX: MikTeX, LaTeX Project (Latex help: 1, 2, 3 ).

C++ Development: Dev-C++, MinGW, GTK+, gtkmm (compiler options).

Editor: CREdit.

Perl.

Ghostview.

Guide to available mathematical software.

GNU Scientific Library.

Library of statistical software at Carnegie Mellon University.

Statistics software package R.

Probability Network Modeling Tool GeNIe.

Geographic Resources Analysis Support System GRASS GIS.

Water quality and hydrodynamic model for rivers, estuaries, lakes, reservoirs and river basin systems CE-QUAL-W2.

Soil & Water Assessment Tool SWAT.